- Case Number: a20120703.1
- Status: closed
Claimants: MichaelTänzer
- Respondents: Benny Baumann
Initital Case Manager: AlexRobertson
Former Case Manager: UlrichSchroeter
Case Manager: PhilippDunkel
Former Arbitrator: PhilippDunkel
Arbitrator: UlrichSchroeter
- Date of arbitration start: 2012-08-10
- Date of ruling: 2012-09-21
- Case closed: 2012-09-21
- Complaint: Arbitrated Background Check over Benny Baumann
- Relief: TBD
Before: Arbitrator UlrichSchroeter (A), Respondent: Benny Baumann (R), Claimant: MichaelTänzer (C), Case: a20120703.1
History Log
2012-07-03 (issue.c.o) case s20120703.333
- 2012-07-04 (iCM): added to wiki, request for CM / A
- 2012-08-07 (A): I'll take care about this case as (A)
- 2012-08-10 (A): initmailing with CCA acceptance request, sending invitation to a chat meeting to (R)
- 2012-08-26 (Marcus): sending info to (A) that Ulrich has a chance to meet (R) mid September in Hamburg
- 2012-09-08 (CM): asking (A) for objections starting the F2F ABC interview today, I'll take care about this case as (CM)
- 2012-09-08 (R): accepts CCA/DRP under this arbitration, rcvd 100 assurance pts and passed CATS test
- 2012-09-08 (CM): ABC interview with (R), (Dirk) as minutetaker and (CM) as interviewer, cv list received
- 2012-09-08 (A): response to (CM)'s email: to (CM), (R), (Dirk) no go ahead and take over the case.. I did send the init email but never got a response.
- 2012-09-08 (A): in response to (R) answer to init mailing: thanks for the reply, since you'll meet ulrich in person, he has now taken over the case.
- 2012-09-08 (Dirk): reply to (A)'s mail: we're staying in direct contact with Benny for a while, except the F2F meeting for the ABC interview did not happen yet. Ulrich made the interview today #mrmcd, I wrote the minutes. Ulrich will send you the related infos in the upcoming days
- 2012-09-08 (A) / (CM) switched
2012-09-08 (A): UlrichSchroeter continues in role as (A), PhilippDunkel continues in role as (CM) in this case
- 2012-09-08 (A): summary and some more infos of all 2012-09-08 email and F2F meeting activities sent to: (C), (R), (CM), (Dirk)
- 2012-09-09 (A): sending interview minutes, (A) additional notes and corrections, (CV), original questions to (CM), (Dirk) with request to (Dirk) to confirm the corrections and additions
- 2012-09-09 (A): sending request for references list to (R), (CM)
- 2012-09-09 (A): some more background infos regarding (R), sent to (CM)
- 2012-09-09 (Dirk): corrections confirmed except top 14, slightly different, sent to (CM), (A)
- 2012-09-14 (R): sending reference list to (A)
- 2012-09-14 (A): forwarding (R)'s reference list to (CM)
- 2012-09-19 (A): request to (Support) for AP / EP state of (R)
- 2012-09-19 (Support): [s20120919.87] response to (A)'s request with AP/EP infos over (R)
- 2012-09-19 (A): sending final ABC interview protocol to (Dirk) with request for confirmation with CARS
- 2012-09-20 (A): confirmation request by CARS to (R) of SP reading and understanding
- 2012-09-20 (A): phone interview with (R) regarding open questions w/ observer (Dirk), (R) confirms SP reading and understanding
- 2012-09-20 (A): sending phone interview protocol to (CM), (Dirk) with request for confirmation
- 2012-09-21 (Dirk): confirms phone interview protocol
- 2012-09-21 (Dirk): confirms final ABC interview protocol
Original Dispute, Discovery (Private Part) (optional)
Link to Arbitration case a20120703.1 (Private Part), Access for (CM) + (A) only)
EOT Private Part
Discovery
Benny is Inc members since m20110320.8
(A): pre-advise to (R) to read Security Policy
- (A): CV and reference list received from (R)
- [s20120919.87]: (R) is experienced assurer (150 pts member)
- (R) confirms that he have read and understand SP in phone interview dated 2012-09-20
Software-Assessment project team meeting 2012-06-12 (R)'s first attendance, and following meetings (Benny + BenBe)
Ruling
Part I - reliability
The background check has not revealed any material issues in conflict with a role under Security Policy (SP).
In the interview I came to the conclusion that the candidate in question is considered reliable enough to gain access to CAcert systems and data as part of his work for CAcert. One minor theoreticaly CoI has been disclosed in the interview.
Part II - recommendations
Despite the fact (R) had not yet read SP in full by the time of the interview. x1)
I recommend Software-Assessment teamleader to continue with some training regarding procedures within CAcert following SP to check (R)'s understanding of CAcert's SP concept.
Pre ABC interview talks revealed (R)'s knowledge and experiences that is required in CAcert's Software-Assessment area. This is backed up by the experiences from the weekly Software-Assessment project team meetings where (R) did pre-reviews of a couple of patches.
x1) in a 2nd phone interview about 2 weeks later, (R) confirmed that he has read and understand SP in full
Part III - orders
I hereby rule that minutes taker and observer (Dirk) in ABC interview and phone interview shall destroy all files from his computer or other storage devices where he stored the ABC interview protocol and phone interview protocol.
Frankfurt/Main, 2012-09-21
Execution
- 2012-09-21 (A): ruling sent to (C), (R), (Dirk), (Board), (CM)
- 2012-09-21 (A): ruling part III order, exec request sent to (Dirk)
- 2012-09-21 (Dirk): there are no copies of the files left on my machine
- 2012-09-21 (A): case closed
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